Essays, Sketches and Illustrations of bygone Sussex

Friston, or Bechyngton Place, which is now a farmhouse in a deep dell, relieved with ancient elms, has features of antiquity, including a hall, the roof of which belongs to the fourteenth century. In the great window is a sun-dial, with this motto from Cicero : " Sensim sine sensu" (Softly and no man knows).

HURSTPIERPOINT.

"Via crucis via lucis" (The way of the Cross is the way of light), is inscribed at Hurstpierpoint School on a dial which is shaped as a recumbent cross. The hours are indicated by the position of the shadow on the different points of the cross.

Fyning. uNihil volentibus arduum" (Nothing is difficult to the willing), is the inscription on a dial at Fyning House, which was erected in the reign of George II.